In Book 4, Justin Graves travels to the Caribbean to roundup a gang of lawyers and accountants who’d killed an old lady for her estate, a multi-million dollar fortune she’d bequeathed to a cat rescue organization.

Struggling to get on with her life after the murder of her daughter, Sandy Brandish returns to the glitz and glamour of child beauty queen competition. There she meets an orphaned girl. Adopting her will catapult them to the top of the local pageant registry and spur a repeat performance of the night her daughter died, revealing the murderer and a dark secret in the Brandish mansion.

Hotshot ad man Doug Richards lives the life: working the top accounts, screwing over his colleagues, bedding the hottest women. All of the money, none of the strings.
But why do the shadows take the shape of gargoyles and why is he doodling them without thinking?
How can they move?
"Skin Deep" is a short story.

Patty spends her days in the filing room, organizing, collating and filing. Soon the files begin talking to her. They demand more than new labels, more than her time. The files demand blood.
The files demand sacrifice...
Paper cuts are just the beginning...
"File Under Oblivion" is a short story.

“a collection of nine very delightful vstories that won’t suffer from being read at bed time by anyone.
—Bob Leishman, Tangent Online
“a selection of creeeepy vignettes of the kind that kids love because it keeps them up at night and then they can lie in their beds quivering with fear”
—Patrice Sarath, author of ‘Gordath Wood’

After her mother’s death, Katherine Snellman discovers a letter from her long-missing father. Consumed with curiosity and grief, she returns home to retrace a secret meeting on a bridge at midnight and discover a horrific truth she never suspected.
And may not survive.
"Returning Home" is a short story.

What happens when a werewolf decides it wants seafood? Find out how a detective from a small town in South Florida learns how big wolves can get. He also finds out that his girlfriend might be into some weird stuff but that's not the main point of the story. Focus on the werewolf and the whale!
This story is guaranteed to contain no less than one whale and one werewolf or your money back.

Blues guitarist George Dorbeck wants nothing more than to enjoy the last oceanside days at his beach house. But when an exterminator hands him a bill he cannot pay, his problems literally grow legs.
A Horror Short Story.
4,500 words.

A Voodoo priest uses zombie powder to control a vampire in an effort to save his family from being sacrificed in a dark ritual that will remake the face of the world. Dupre the vampire, is trapped inside of his own head, unable to control his body, with certain death looming if he doesn't overcome the effects of the Powder of Death.

After Alejandro the waiter performs a new magic trick that humiliates him in front of the whole kitchen, Johnny the pot washer comes up with a new magic trick of his own to serve a cold dish of revenge. (A 2,190-word short story.)

American couple Colm and Kathryn travel to the Irish town of Kilcoole to search for Colm’s roots. But in the era of the Celtic Tiger, Ireland’s past and present mix in a dangerous brew. The dark side of Kilcoole threatens to destroy more than Colm and Kathryn's relationship…
Length: 15 pages. Includes a sneak preview of BLACK WEDDING by Felicity Savage.

When your family has a history which you’d rather forget, there’s an invading force of Taurans trying to remodel your planet and some evil monster just won’t leave you alone; you know it’s not your day. Vincent Kombel knew that he had a lot to pay for; being of Old Blood meant much on New Sevilla, just for Vincent it meant a little bit more...

Fan should’ve known better, but desire overrode common sense and she ended up pregnant. Breeding. The worst word in the world, because of what it means. Forcible capture. Registration. Planting. Harvesting. Death. She prays that her beloved Denny will rescue her. When he does, she finally understands the meaning of another word. Helpless. With bonus story "The Devil Wears Combat Boots."

If Thomas Harding had known what horrors awaited him, he would have thrown down the newspaper and run, and never stopped running.
But temptation comes in many forms. For Harding, a dried up journalist in a scabrous town, a story that might bring recognition and escape was the temptation that could not be resisted.
The story begins with a series of unsolved murders. It ends at the Terminus.

Her name was Crimson... and she was a legend. A beautiful pirate queen who plundered the 16th Century Caribbean sea by day and confronted voodoo and vampires during the steaming tropical nights.
Cast in Dark Waters is an original dark adventure tale by Ed Gorman and Tom Piccirilli

When Rusty and his friends decide to visit the local neighborhood haunted house on Halloween night, they get much more than they bargained for, becoming embroiled in a hair-raising escapade which threatens to drag them into a living nightmare

This is a short story.The twin girls were dead. This was a fact. They faced each other, their heads held back by their long, dark brown hair twisted around the wire that secured their feet, mouths opened wide in a scream; a scream that was never heard. They whisper as they wait. Time has no meaning to the dead.

This is a short story.
The old, abandoned Theine house ... standing alone, seemingly still, so very dark. Whispered stories of nightmares inside. Rumors of a girl’s body in the ditch. The curiosity of those too young to know better than to dare a peek. Shattered innocence. Sacrifices from the purest of loves … the love of a child.